A fairly brief introduction provides a basic description of the manuscript, concentrating on its codicology and production. |
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Hebrew handwritten books may indeed serve as a useful means for devising a comparative codicology and paleography. |
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This seminar provides students with a firm foundation in the discipline of codicology and introduces them to the cultural history of the medieval book. |
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For the Medieval Studies M.A. students can take the class on How to Describe a Medieval Manuscript, which gives an introduction to transcription and codicology. |
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Palaeography is the study of historical handwritten scripts, and codicology the related study of other physical aspects of manuscript codexes. |
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A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette. |
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